Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
My English manual with 300+ screen shots is now going to be updated and then translated into 6 languages. The screen shots are to be localized. I use SnagIt 7.2.3. I plan to give them my English manual with the English screen shots as links. The idea is that they replace the English screen shots

RE: Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi Verner, I take also the screenshots in other languages. Translators could not deal with our software, and if I had to explain how they could open a specific window, I rather do it myself. I have a multilingual Windows, so that all buttons (also buttons like Cancel) will have the correct

Re: Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Art Campbell
If I were you, I'd provide a set of directories, one for each language, each containing a set of graphics with the same name so FM can just pull them in without modification. Then the translators would just plug in the correct directory, or you would only provide the correct one initially. Unless

RE: Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
I second Art's suggestion on duplicate graphic folders for each language, with localized files named the same as the originals. It's exactly what we do with our translations. (We translate into 30 languages). -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential,

RE: Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
Forsooth, and if thy language dost ne'er evolv'd, henceforth thee wouldst speaketh as the ancient Bard. Verily, the words of man must changeth and groweth as the seasons change -- looketh upon all the wordings which the Bard hast introduc'd into our speech. Woulds't thou changeth all that? -Carla

RE: Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
Sigh... Selected the wrong list email when I sent this!!! Sorry, everyone. (FWIW, this was all about someone finding the word updation in some outsourced programming files. And the fact that the word has been around and in use for the past decade or so... ) TGIF is all I can say. -Carla

Re: Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Deirdre Reagan
I must have missed an email somewhere. A woman without her man is nothing. Oh, wait. I think I meant: A woman: without her, man is nothing. Happy Friday! On 4/24/09, Martinek, Carla cmarti...@zebra.com wrote: Forsooth, and if thy language dost ne'er evolv'd, henceforth thee wouldst

Re: Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Whites
I'm completely in agreeance. Updation strikes me as a perfectly cromulent word. Will White Monrovia CA On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Martinek, Carla wrote: Sigh... Selected the wrong list email when I sent this!!! Sorry, everyone. (FWIW, this was all about someone finding the word updation

Re: Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread William Abernathy
It's OK...I can see you have done the needful to make amendments. --William Martinek, Carla wrote: Sigh... Selected the wrong list email when I sent this!!! Sorry, everyone. (FWIW, this was all about someone finding the word updation in some outsourced programming files. And the fact

RE: Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Reid Gray
Chicago, eh? Be put in a cauldron of lead and usurer's grease, amongst a whole million of cutpurses, and there boil like a gammon of bacon that will never be enough. The Earl of Oxford was a Celtics fan. Your turn. http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html :-b Reid

Language and Shakespeare

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
As a follow-up for fun on a Friday on Framers... (I love alliteration!) http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/a2-shakespeare-insult-generator.ht m http://www.talklikeshakespeare.org/ -Carla Somewhere I'm sure someone has used FrameMaker to publish the words of the Bard at some point, so

FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Diana Stock
Hello All, I occasionally help another department with a manual that uses FM 8. (I use FM 7.0p579) Almost every action performed Frame pops a dialog box stating 'Cannot be undone. Undo History will be lost. OK to continue? Does anyone have an idea why this occurs and how to disable it? I have

RE: FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Diana Stock wrote: I occasionally help another department with a manual that uses FM 8. (I use FM 7.0p579) Almost every action performed Frame pops a dialog box stating 'Cannot be undone. Undo History will be lost. OK to continue? Does anyone have an idea why this occurs and how to

RE: FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Fred Ridder
From Diana Stock: I occasionally help another department with a manual that uses FM 8. (I use FM 7.0p579) Almost every action performed Frame pops a dialog box stating 'Cannot be undone. Undo History will be lost. OK to continue? Does anyone have an idea why this occurs and how to disable

RE: FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Diana Stock
Wow- that was fast! Thanks for such a quick response - as usual this network is the BEST. I have always learned something from all the messages. Diana -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:01 PM To: Diana Stock;

Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Andersen, Verner Engell VEA
My English manual with 300+ screen shots is now going to be updated and then translated into 6 languages. The screen shots are to be localized. I use SnagIt 7.2.3. I plan to give them my English manual with the English screen shots as links. The idea is that they replace the English screen shots

Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Reng, Winfried
Hi Verner, I take also the screenshots in other languages. Translators could not deal with our software, and if I had to explain how they could open a specific window, I rather do it myself. I have a multilingual Windows, so that all buttons (also buttons like Cancel) will have the correct

Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Art Campbell
If I were you, I'd provide a set of directories, one for each language, each containing a set of graphics with the same name so FM can just pull them in without modification. Then the translators would just plug in the correct directory, or you would only provide the correct one initially. Unless

Off topic: Helping translators with localised screen shots

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
I second Art's suggestion on duplicate graphic folders for each language, with localized files named the same as the originals. It's exactly what we do with our translations. (We translate into 30 languages). -Carla - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential,

Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
Forsooth, and if thy language dost ne'er evolv'd, henceforth thee wouldst speaketh as the ancient Bard. Verily, the words of man must changeth and groweth as the seasons change -- looketh upon all the wordings which the Bard hast introduc'd into our speech. Woulds't thou changeth all that? -Carla

Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
Sigh... Selected the wrong list email when I sent this!!! Sorry, everyone. (FWIW, this was all about someone finding the word "updation" in some outsourced programming files. And the fact that the word has been around and in use for the past decade or so... ) TGIF is all I can say. -Carla

Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Deirdre Reagan
I must have missed an email somewhere. A woman without her man is nothing. Oh, wait. I think I meant: A woman: without her, man is nothing. Happy Friday! On 4/24/09, Martinek, Carla wrote: > Forsooth, and if thy language dost ne'er evolv'd, henceforth thee > wouldst speaketh as the

Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Whites
I'm completely in agreeance. "Updation" strikes me as a perfectly cromulent word. Will White Monrovia CA On Apr 24, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Martinek, Carla wrote: > Sigh... Selected the wrong list email when I sent this!!! Sorry, > everyone. > > (FWIW, this was all about someone finding the word

Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread Reid Gray
Chicago, eh? "Be put in a cauldron of lead and usurer's grease, amongst a whole million of cutpurses, and there boil like a gammon of bacon that will never be enough." The Earl of Oxford was a Celtics fan. Your turn. http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html :-b Reid

Language and Shakespeare

2009-04-24 Thread Martinek, Carla
As a follow-up for fun on a Friday on Framers... (I love alliteration!) http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/a2-shakespeare-insult-generator.ht m http://www.talklikeshakespeare.org/ -Carla Somewhere I'm sure someone has used FrameMaker to publish the words of the Bard at some point, so there's

Today's exercise in misunderstanding English

2009-04-24 Thread William Abernathy
It's OK...I can see you have done the needful to make amendments. --William Martinek, Carla wrote: > Sigh... Selected the wrong list email when I sent this!!! Sorry, > everyone. > > (FWIW, this was all about someone finding the word "updation" in some > outsourced programming files. And the

FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Diana Stock
Hello All, I occasionally help another department with a manual that uses FM 8. (I use FM 7.0p579) Almost every action performed Frame pops a dialog box stating 'Cannot be undone. Undo History will be lost. OK to continue? Does anyone have an idea why this occurs and how to disable it? I have

FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Diana Stock wrote: > I occasionally help another department with a manual that uses FM 8. (I > use FM 7.0p579) Almost every action performed Frame pops a dialog box > stating 'Cannot be undone. Undo History will be lost. OK to continue? > > Does anyone have an idea why this occurs and how to

FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Fred Ridder
>From Diana Stock: > I occasionally help another department with a manual that uses FM 8. (I > use FM 7.0p579) Almost every action performed Frame pops a dialog box > stating 'Cannot be undone. Undo History will be lost. OK to continue? > > Does anyone have an idea why this occurs and how to

FrameMaker Dialog Box

2009-04-24 Thread Diana Stock
Wow- that was fast! Thanks for such a quick response - as usual this network is the BEST. I have always learned something from all the messages. Diana -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:01 PM To: Diana Stock;